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Glossary
operating
system
The
con
ten
ts
of
/hp-ux
,
including
the
k
ernel,
commands,
input-output
con
trol,
system
accounting,
storage assignmen
t, and
other services.
A
lso
se
e
kernel
.
OSF
Op
en
Soft
w
are
F
oundation.
o
wner
The
o
wner
of
a
le
is
usually
the
creator of
that le.
How
ev
er,
the
o
wnership
of
a
le
can
b
ec
hanged
b
y
the
sup
eruser
or
the
curren
t
o
wner
with
the
chown(1)
command
or
the
chown(2)
system
call.
parent
process
ID
A
paren
t
pro
cess
iden
tication.
A
lso
see
PID .
passw
ord
An
encrypted
sequence
of c
haracters used
b
y
HP-UX
to
iden
tify
an
authorized
user
and
to
p
ermit
authorized
login
on
a
system.
path
name
(Tw
o
w
ords,
except
as
an
italicized
argumen
t,
p
athname
.)
A
sequence
of
directory names,
separated b
y
slashes,
whic
h
sp
ecify
the
lo
cation
of
an
y
le
or
directory
.
PID
Pro cess
iden
tit
y
(n
um
b
er).
p
op-up
men
u
A
men
u
that
remains
in
visible
un
til
a
user
action
or
some condition
in the
program
causes the
menu
to
displa
y
.
T
ypically
the
user
either
presses
the
\men
u
button"
on
the
mouse
(a
common
default
is
button
3), or
presses
the
\menuk
ey" on the k
eyboard (a common default is
F10).
POSIX
POrtable Systems In
terface (for UN*X). UN*X standard
from IEEE.
Posix Shell
POSIX-compliantv
ersion of the Korn Shell.
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